Entries Tagged 'Grab Bag' ↓

Oni Logos

As you may or may not be aware, Oni Press recently redid their logo. (Old logo to the left, new of the right.) It was just something I read about somewhere online but the April 2012 copy in Inc. Magazine had a two page article on how the new logo came to be. At the [...]

Enter The Story

Do you like comics? Do you like classic stories? Do you like interactive fiction? Well, you might want to Enter The Story. It is all of those things and more -so far- as I’m still working through the initial episodes. More importantly, it’s fun. Published on ArtPatient Related PostsDowners Followed By Uppers Computer Trix Piratical [...]

How Tos and Secret Codes

Always helpful, Webcomic Alliance presented 10 Questions For Creators and Sunday Comics Debt shared some Manga Movie Techniques we might make use of. The Webcomic List had an informative thread about Getting Reader Interaction and ComixTalk featured a wonderful article about better comic performances. The creators of Fredo & Pidjin were interviewed and the third [...]

More Comics Business

This is a comics business update… Tom Richmond has thoughts about how to charge for freelance illustration and here is a follow up thought about usage rights policies. InkOutbreak may or may not be for you as a reader but here’s one artist’s take on it as a way to find more readers. It’s not [...]

Comic News Tidbits

I hope you took a chance to get some Steve Rude art. I hope things are better now for him. The name colors my impression of him; I used to work with a guy (also) named Rude who was pretty much the zealous definition of the word. In other news, you should be reading ComixTalk [...]

November’s Comic Tips

This post on Digital Webbing talked about leading the eye and this one talked about scene to scene transitions. Joumana of Mallak offered up some great comic making tips plus tips on offset printing and some thoughts about how she dealt with translation printings. (You can also get a look into her process at the [...]

Comic Credit

Once upon a time, if you were an artists, you studied under a master and plagiarized their style, as directed. They called the shots and took all the credit. You weren’t allowed to do things much your way until you became a master artist yourself. These days, though, no one is beholden to anyone else [...]

Enter The Hero Kickstarter

page1 Enter The Hero It’s an ordinary day. People go to work; they come home. They kick back and turn on the television. There’s been a terrible tragedy. Miraculously, out of nowhere a super hero has appeared and saved the day. No one knows who he is, where he came from, or what he’s capable of. [...]

How Can You Not Be Inspired?

Here’s the tweet from @karasuchan: Calvin and Hobbes fans!! Give this a read, 20 pages: http://patronustrip.deviantart.com/art/CnH-Tribute-ONE-163525977 #calvinandhobbes #webcomic My hat’s off to Patronus. And here are the next 19 of them. After you read the story, ask your self if Calvin didn’t deserve all that? Published on ArtPatient Related PostsThe Frantics Batman Has New Digs [...]

Henson’s Toy Story

I found this inspiring. Of course, If Henson were alive, I also think we’d have Toy Story style muppets right now, too. And I loves me some process, so I’ll share with you Orienteering’s process, which I found on CWR. Perhaps you can take advantage of the five shots, as outlined in this video to [...]

Readers and Business

What can businesses learn from comic conventions? Hopefully you won’t find it as complicated as the chart above? And do you have a need for your comic posts appearing in multiple languages? Vas has a good solution for you. And I see Assetbar is shutting down. Some comics do well with offering premium content for [...]

Mashups and Redos

I liked this comic concept. In general, it takes so long to make a comic that I enjoy seeing comics adjusted and repurposed from time to time. Published on ArtPatient Related PostsHarry?!? What Are You Doing Here? Snowflakes are unqiue, aren’t they? Secrets Places For my Precious Time Folds In On Itself Traveling Gnomes